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Czech MEP and Babiš ally guilty of EU subsidy fraud, court rules (opens the original)
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European lawmaker Jana Nagyová is guilty of EU subsidy fraud in a €2 million case related to Agrofert, the agriculture conglomerate linked to Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, Prague's High Court confirmed Monday in an appeal ruling. The court sentenced Nagyová, a Patriots for Europe MEP and a former adviser to Babiš, to a suspended three-year prison term, with a five-year probation period, and a fine of about €20,000 for subsidy fraud and damaging the financial interests of the EU. The decisio
Brussels gives drones a new mission: Killing bugs (opens the original)
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More drones in Europe’s skies might not sound like the obvious recipe for consensus among EU ministers. Yet, lifting a long-standing ban on spraying pesticides from uncrewed aerial vehicles is the least controversial part of the European Commission’s overhaul of the bloc’s pesticide rules — and one that the EU member countries have been seeking for years. While drones tend to carry negative connotations, given their deadly use in war or the ongoing airspace violations on the EU’s eastern borders
Brussels is giving drones a new mission: Killing bugs (opens the original)
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More drones in Europe’s skies might not sound like the obvious recipe for consensus among EU ministers. Yet, lifting a long-standing ban on spraying pesticides from uncrewed aerial vehicles is the least controversial part of the European Commission's overhaul of the bloc's pesticide rules — and one that the EU member countries have been seeking for years. While drones tend to carry negative connotations, given their deadly use in war or the ongoing airspace violations on the EU's eastern borders
Breakfast looks a lot more expensive under new EU pesticide plans (opens the original)
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Fancy a morning coffee, orange juice or blueberry pancakes for your Sunday brunch? Prepare to fork out more for those items if Brussels' plan to get foreign growers to align with the bloc's pesticide rules holds. An analysis by the European Commission's in-house researchers confirms what non-EU farmers have been saying for months: A plan to prohibit any trace of some of the "most hazardous" pesticides banned in the EU for health and environmental reasons would lead to fewer and more expensive pr
EU prosecutor asks for police probe into subsidies for Babiš-linked Agrofert (opens the original)
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The European Public Prosecutor's Office has tasked Czech police with investigating the payment of EU subsidies to companies within Agrofert, an agro-chemical giant tied to Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.In a letter dated June 19, European Delegated Prosecutor Daniela Bártíková said she "decided to initiate criminal proceedings ... concerning funds provided from the EU budgets." The letter, seen by POLITICO, was first reported by Seznam Zprávy. The referral to police relates to subsidies paid
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